Late July, my last sync of the apprenticeship, and we did a recap of the last workshop we co-led. A year ago, in the Finance Circle, I would not have trusted myself to do that. In between: three Circles and a year of learning, step by step, more responsibility.

That was no coincidence. My training manager Petra planned it that way. She wanted me to get to know as many Circles and Liipers as possible, and to check off as many training objectives as I could along the way. In the end, what mattered was where there was work and support for me, not a…